Bordering sidewalks safe for smokers

Smokers traveling to surrounding areas of UK’s campus in search of their nicotine fix have nothing to worry about in the near future.

The proposed memorandum of understanding UK presented to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council to ban the use of tobacco on city-owned sidewalks has been taken off the table, said UK Spokesman Jimmy Stanton.

UK officials proposed the memorandum on Oct. 27, but the request was moved to the Intergovernmental Committee so council members could hear more concerns from Lexington residents.

Stanton said the memorandum is not a priority for the university and administrators felt no need to move on it.

“The (current) policy seems to be working as we anticipated,” he said. “We could always evaluate it in the future, but at this point there are no plans for that right now.”